closed corporation

The whole represented a closed corporation of intimacies into which she could no more force her way than a worm into a billiard ball.

Generally speaking, we have been a sort of closed corporation, a board of five, with each one given a vote and the right to cast it.

A new scholarship boy had one day been assigned to the closed corporation of our particular class-room.

Gunnery was a closed corporation, and the gunner himself a guildsman.

With only his model to prove his claims, the inventor had managed to sell all the stock; and from the very beginning the operations would be carried out by a closed corporation.